Coal-cart



(No Model.)

J. R. SAGLE.

COAL CART.

Patented July 16, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH R. SAGLE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

COAL-CART.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,121, dated July 16, 1889.

Application filed April 27, 1889. Serial No, 308,866. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

"Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. SAGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coal-Carts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a wagon for hauling and delivering coal, and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the wagon, one of the reach-bars being broken and the rear axle in section. Fig. 2 is a rear end elevation of same.

The letter A designates the wheels; B, the rear axle; B, a bolster-bar resting on top of 7 the front axle; and C, two arched reach-bars which extend from the rear axle to the front bolster-bar to which they are secured. The rear axle may also have a bolster-bar upon it.

These parts comprise the running-gear of the wagon, and the described arch construction of the two reach-bars provides at the center an elevated seat whereon the hopper-body D is mounted. The arched reachbars O support two horizontal bars E, extending lengthwise, and each of these has two vertical rods F, which guide and steady the hopper-body when it moves up and down. The body or box D of the wagon has a hopper-shaped bottom g, and is provided with boxes or bearings h, which are occupied by the guide-rods F, and which slide thereon. The hopper-body has two discharge-gates I, one 011 a side opposite the other and each worked by a lever J. A tubular nozzle 7; projects from the gatecasing Z, and a tubular spout or chute N may be attached to the said gate-nozzle k. A section of this tube l may be carried upon hooks 0 at the side of each arched bar O.

vMeans for raising and lowering the hopperbody above the arched bars are employed, in order thereby to give an increased inclination to the tubechutes N when they are in position to discharge coal, if the position of the ground, street, or coal-bin opening requires it. Any suitable means to this end may be employed in connection with the parts heretofore described. In the present instance a vertical lift-screw P has its upper end fixed in any suitable way to the basepoint or bottom of the hopper-body and projects downward through two cross-bars q q, one above the other, attached to the two arched bars. A bevel-pinion r is internally screw-threaded and fits on the lift-screw, and has position between the said two cross-bars q g. This pinion 0' turns like a nut on the lift screw, but cannot advance or change position, as it is confined by the two cross-bars. A shaft 8 turns in bearing-st and carries a bevel-pinion u, which gears with the said nutpinion r. This shaft has a square end o for the attachment of a crank-handle, (not shown which, when not in use, may be removed.

To hold the body down when it is empty and prevent injurious motion, the vertical rods F may be slotted and a tapered key or pin 10 inserted above the bearings h.

Of course a brake may be attached to the wagon, and also the body parts maybe mounted on springs.

The construction may be varied somewhat from that here shown without affecting my invention.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of the axles and bolster-bars, two arched reach-bars 0, horizontal bars E, attached to the reach-bars, vertical guide-bars F, projecting up from the said horizontal bars, and the body D, seated on the elevated part of the arched bars and provided with a side discharge-gate.

2. The combination of the axles and bolster-bars, two arched reach-bars O, horizontal bars E, attached to the reach-bars, vertical guide-bars F, projecting up from the said horizontal bars a body seated normally on the elevated part of the arched bars, and a lift-screw I, to raise the body above its normal seat.

3. The combination of the axles and bolster-bars, reach-bars, vertical guide-rods F, provided with slots, a body D, having bearings h, which slide on the vertical rods, a liftscrew to raise the body, and keys 20, inserted in the said slots above the bodybearings.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J OSEPII R. SAGLE.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN E. MORRIS, JNo. T. MADDoX. 

